Hurricane Harvey ripped through Texas over the past week. On Thursday, the FOH Army was mobilized in force. 

Shea Serrano, author of The Rap Yearbook, the upcoming book Basketball (and other things), and writer for TheRinger.com, asked people to give money to support something to help Houstonians in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. 

Sorry for the language. I guess… . 

time 4 the Fuck Hurricane Harvey donation ~ i got $200 on it ~ if u wanna join in:

PayPal: introducingliston@gmail.com
Venmo: Shea-Serrano pic.twitter.com/GQALuG8SIr

— Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) August 31, 2017

That was three hours ago. As of a few minutes ago, the FOH Army has raised over $70k.

Edit – In the time it took me to write most of this, the balance is up to over $90k.

over $90,000 in less than four hours — i'm not sure what else there is for me to say pic.twitter.com/h8qfk08DHt

— Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) September 1, 2017

They’re gonna get to 6 digits. 

The cool thing is that nobody quite knows what Serrano will do with it, but he’s bound to do something awesome.

this is what it looks like and sounds like lol it's been doing this for three hours pic.twitter.com/PuXv76NdKe

— Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) September 1, 2017

Seriously, how cool is this?

As I understand it, Serrano grew up in San Antonio, but lives in Houston now. If you don’t know the devastation that many in Houston are currently facing, you have been living under a rock. 

Serrano has done things like this before. He made one day the busiest in a bookstore’s history. He gave a lady who helped him find his car a tip she won’t soon forget. Serrano’s army raised $10,000 for a homeless shelter for LGBTQ kids. Here’s some cool stuff he does with bookmark money. 

What I’m saying is that the dude is legit. He gets people (like me) really excited to do helpful things. He’s proven himself trustworthy again and again and this is ballooning into something that will help the city he lives in in some kind of significant way. 

He is, in a word, inspiring.

I donated the leftover money I had in my paypal account from this past year’s spring training trip. 

I have another post coming, but we gotta find a way to do something more organized in SLO for cool stuff like this.

WHERE TO DONATE:

JJ Watt’s Relief Fund is certainly a legit and worthy place to donate. It’s over $13,000,000 now and growing.

I donated $25 at Costco yesterday to the Red Cross — always a decent option. 

If you want to be a member of the FOH Army, you have two options:

Paypal money to Shea at introducingliston@gmail.com OR

Venmo at Shea-Serrano.